In America it is higher than the relative productivity of the country would explain, because a new country with boundless natural resources creates a permanently exceptional demand for labour; because the facilities with which land can be acquired and wrought, even by men without previous agricultural training, affords a ready correction to temporary redundancies of labour; and because the labour itself is more mobile, versatile, and energetic in a nation largely composed of immigrants.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
What may be done to meet the redundancies of labour that are always with us is a difficult but pressing question which I cannot enter upon here.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
It is not that the desire to suppress redundancies is a tendency deserving anything but commendation in any writer, whether great or small; but rather, that the art of concealing art had not yet dawned upon Chaucer.
"Chaucer"
Adolphus William Ward